Moonlight has won the best picture Oscar in an unlikely victory, sensationally defeating the strong favourite La La Land.Directed by Barry Jenkins and adapted from an unpublished playscript by Tarell Alvin McCraney, Moonlight won near-universal critical plaudits for its depiction of the coming of age of a gay black teenager from a rough neighbourhood in Miami.It defeated nine other films in the Oscar race: apart from hot favourite La La Land, it also beat Kenneth Lonergan’s grief drama Manchester by the Sea and the commercially successful Hidden Figures, about black female mathematicians who worked on Nasa’s moon mission in the 1960s.Viola Davis and Mahershala Ali won their first Oscars for their supporting roles in African-American stories "Fences" and "Moonlight," in stark contrast to the 2016 Academy Awards when no actors of color were even nominated.

Nooo What happened? Ruth Negga should had won that thing, sadly Emma Stone's popularity was a breaking edge. Happy for Mahashala Ali and viola Davis... but I don't know how Moonlight won? I was rooting for hidden figures :/